They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

Nothing cures like time and love.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

If you can not be a poet, be the poem.

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.